Abe’s hitting the road for summer vacation. Solve his trail of postcard clues and win the ultimate prize - an Abe plushie!

The hunt is over

Thank you so much for playing Timehop’s Puzzle Hunt 2022! 

Once again, we had a HUGE turnout. Over 100,000 Timehoppers tried the hunt, but only 1,164 of you made it to end and submitted an answer. Amazingly, 289 of you got all 5 correct! Bravo to the 25% of you super sleuths!

We have three winners chosen from the pool of correct submissions, so give it up for…

Charlie - Bremerton, WA

Alexis - Brooklyn, NY

Ashley - Branson, MO

Thanks again for joining us on this road trip, we hope you had as much fun trying to solve Abe’s postcards as we did watching you trying solve Abe’s postcards! Check the full solutions below and we’ll see you for the next hunt…

Puzzle Solutions

    • View Puzzle

    • Each sentence of the postcard includes an underlined word that references a state’s nickname. (i.e. Missouri is the Show Me State)

    • These nicknames reference 8 of the 12 license plates designs.

    • Put those 8 license plates in order their state was added to the union (as referenced by the last sentence of the postcard)

    • This gives you: TH15TRAFF1CL1GHTC0LRW1LL5H1N3ANDGL0WWH3N1T5Y0URT1M3T0G0

    • Read differently: This traffic light color will shine and glow when it is your time to go.

    • GREEN (60% success rate)

    • View Puzzle

    • Wade’s playlist songs are all anagrams of certain songs on Abe’s list (ie “8 is broke” = “Sk8er Boi”

    • The length of each song references a specific word and letter from the lyrics, as mentioned by the postcard (ie 08:04 is the 4th letter of the 8th word)

    • Those letters in order spell out LAST WORD LAST SONG

    • Find the last word of the last song on Abe’s playlist

    • LEAVE (59% success rate)

    • View Puzzle

    • Each fun fact leads you to an answer

    • The answers share common first or last words in 9 exact pairs (ie Green Monster and Monster Truck)

    • Each before-and-after pair fit into the grid of spaces in only one place, with the shared word matching the grey spaces

    • The blacked out spaces reference letters that spell out AM FM TUNER

    • RADIO (60% success rate)

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    • Each group of photos is a rebus that can be decoded to a landmark (ie Grand Hole Hop Rey = Grand Ole Opry)

    • Each landmark represents a specific city that gives you 5 city-to-city routes

    • There is one interstate that connects each city pair in a specific direction (ie NYC > Chicago on 80 West)

    • Apply the compass’ math equation to the interstate number depending on the highway and you get 25143

    • Decode the numbers according to the legend ABC = 123

    • BEACH (61% success rate)

    • View Puzzle

    • The luggage is stamped with a postage symbol, and the postcard references a reminder “along the way”

    • Each previous postcards contains city-name stamps in a certain order (ie Salt Lake City, Cheyenne, Phoenix)

    • Drawing the route of each set on a map forms a number

    • 1724 (26% success rate)